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Faculty Research

Our faculty members are involved in cutting-edge research across a wide range of topics in linguistics. Click on individual faculty profiles for descriptions of faculty members' recent research, publications, presentations, and grants.

Dartmouth Linguistics has a particular strength in researching less-commonly studied language communities. Our research also frequently focuses on tone languages.

  • Prof. McPherson investigating tonal languages and xylophones

    Prof. McPherson in Burkina Faso investigating connections between tonal languages and indigenous xylophone music.

  • Prof. Stanford researching children's dialect acquisition in rural southwest China.

  • Prof. McPherson conducting fieldwork in West Africa.

  • Barrow sign

    Arctic linguistics: Dartmouth faculty and alumnae are involved in a sociolinguistic study of language sustainability in northern Alaska.

  • 'Eua Island

    South Pacific: 'Eua Island, Kingdom of Tonga